Parliament of Rag & Bone
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Here shards and specters form their parliament;
Dæmon horns resounding through the deep dark.
I sift the fragments by the wick’s small spark;
Persona’s mask casts Shadow’s silent mark.
Hero and Trickster wrestle for the Crown;
Anima’s veil in tatters trails their strife.
The Sage demands the iron stamp of Law;
While Mother, Child appeal to silent Awe.
I stoop above my desk, clerk to the fray—
And betray our discord to the public page.
Black-and-white chiaroscuro digital illustration image of a white Greek comedy mask held by a silhouetted hand, its void eyeholes illuminated and casting the shadow of a sad tragedy mask on a textured wall. A minimalist & symbolic visual high-concept illustrating the Jungian concept of the desired persona-self defining by negation a Shadow of undesired personality traits or selves. Generated by GPT-4 o3 & Gwern Branwen on 2025-04-20 to accompany the poem ‘Pandæmonium Unbound: Parliament of Rag & Bone’ (a homage & sequel to Yeats’s “The Circus Animals’ Desertion § 3”).